Friday, May 3, 2013
A North Paulding brother duo earned top honors in another field event Thursday.
Patrick Fleming of Pope High School and Tray Oates of Allatoona High School repeated as state champions in the 1,600-meter run and the pole vault, respectively, as the Georgia High School Association boys state track and field meet got underway Thursday in Jefferson. Two other athletes from Cobb schools -- Jaylan Reid of Hillgrove High School (shot put) and Joey Connors of Harrison High School (discus) -- also won state crowns. While Fleming repeated as 1,600 champion in the second-largest classification -- now Class AAAAA -- Oates retained his crown by prevailing over a larger group of contenders. Allatoona, which competed in Class AAA last year, moved up to what is now Class AAAAA. Fleming clocked in with a time of 4:15.58, while Oates' …
College football programs are not allowed to place website addresses or social media messages on the field due to rules that were recently amended by the NCAA. Tell us what you think of the athletic association’s decision.
#GoDawgs or #GoJackets? Whichever your preference, you won’t see either on an NCAA football field this fall. The NCAA’s recent “Bulletin on Field Markings, Uniforms, etc.” expressly prohibits “social media designations such as URL’s and hashtags” (Hashtags are words or phrases that are preceded by the # symbol that can be used online to group messages together or to rally support for a common cause, such as for a favorite team.). The rule means that while you may see your fellow fans using Twitter and other social media platforms while at the game, you won’t see “#SicemDawgs” between the hedges at Sanford Stadium or “#GaTech” on Historic Grant Field in Bobby Dodd Stadium. Speaking of UGA, another Southeastern Conference school, Mississippi…
Thursday, May 2, 2013
McEachern is ranked No. 1 as the state tournament begins Friday, and Walton and Marietta also are contenders.
A total of 15 teams from high schools in Cobb, Douglas and Paulding -- six of them ranked -- have qualified for the Georgia High School Association baseball tournament, which begins Friday on school sites throughout the state. Three games in Class AAAAAA will be in Cobb, which boasts three teams in the Top 10. One of the biggest surprises of the season is No. 1 McEachern, which plays host to Tift County. The Indians (22-4) have been thriving under first-year coach Dan Torrenti, a former McEachern player. Also playing at home is No. 4 Walton (19-7), which will be facing South Gwinnett, and No. 6 Marietta (19-7), which is playing host to Camden County. West Cobb's other high schools will be on the road as Harrison travels to Colquitt County …
No. 1 Lassiter went out in the first round, but Harrison, North Cobb, Allatoona, Campbell and Pope advanced Wednesday.
The teams rated as the favorite in the Georgia High School Association Class AAAAAA boys soccer tournament has been knocked off. No. 1 Lassiter, which had been undefeated and untied and had shut out 11 opponents, fell to South Gwinnett 2-1 at home Wednesday night. The Comets scored a goal with two minutes to play to register the upset. The Trojans, who were ranked third in a national high school poll, ended their season with a 16-1-0 record. Not far away in East Cobb, unranked Walton fell behind 2-0 to Central Gwinnett and could not recover, also losing by a 2-1 score. The Campbell boys had a far better outcome, rolling to an easy 5-2 win at home against Camden County. As the MDJ reports, the Spartans scored four goals in their first 10 …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Cobb schools will be well-represented on Thursday, including the 1,600-meter run to finish the day.
If you like jumping and throwing events finished off by a middle-distance run, Thursday's first day of the Georgia High School Association boys state track and field meet is for you. The three-day meet begins at 12 noon Thursday in Jefferson, the longtime home venue for the event, and athletes from several Cobb schools will be worth watching. Preliminaries and finals in the pole vault, discus, high jump, long jump, and triple jump will take place Thursday, as will the 1,600-meter run in all classifications. In Class AAAAAA, Marietta, Harrison, Hillgrove, Kennesaw Mountain and Walton have multiple athletes who've led the performance lists heading into the state meet. A preview in The Marietta Daily Journal labeled Marietta, which has …
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Former Atlanta Hawks player Jason Collins, most recently with the Washington Wizards, recently came out as gay. Tell us what impact, if any, you think his announcement will have.
"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay," says Jason Collins in a story set to be published in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated. The pro basketball veteran has been a member of six teams in 12 seasons in the league, including three in Atlanta—he last donned a Hawks jersey during the 2011-2012 season. But many are likely to deem his coming out as something bigger than his on-the-court career, as he has become the first male U.S. athlete in a major professional sport to declare that he is gay. "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation,” Collins told Sports Illustrated. Collins’ announcement was lauded by several of his …
Monday, April 15, 2013
The event is a way to remember and support those who were killed or injured in The Boston Marathon explosions on Monday.
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Monday, April 15
A locally owned chain of retail stores serving Atlanta's runners and walkers is holding a Mile of Silence event to remember the victims of Monday's Boston Marathon bomb explosions that left two people dead and 22 others injured. The event, a mile-long moment of silence, will be held at 7 a.m. at each of the seven Big Peach Running Co.'s locations, including the Marietta location at 1062 Johnson Ferry Rd. "Runners, walkers, people who just want to feel the love, but don't want to run or walk, are all welcome," said Karen Kaye, BGPC's communications director, told Patch. The moment of silence run was going to be a small gathering of runners at the Midtown store as a way to bring Atlanta's running community together in light of the recent …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Do you think one of the four top-seeded teams will bring home the championship April 8?
March Madness is upon us as the annual NCAA Division I men's college basketball tournament gets under way Tuesday, March 19, and it wouldn't be March Madness without the bracket. (You'll find a handy, printable bracket in the PDF to the right of this text.) Is yours filled out? It's single elimination games as 68 teams complete for the national championship title, and we want to know which teams you predict will make it to the final four and which team you anticipate will be the 2013 NCAA Division I champion. For those unfamiliar with bracketology, USA Today offers tips for those filling out a bracket for the first time and The Huffington Post shares 10 things you should know for the tournament. While workers across the country make …
The Final Four is in Atlanta and these 26 players from Georgia, including four players from Marietta, hope the road to the championship game takes them home.
March Madness is here, and although no Georgia schools are in the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament brackets, there will be a distinct Peach flavor on the road to the Final Four. The Final Four returns to Atlanta — scheduled April 6 and 8 — for the fourth time in history. Atlanta has hosted the final rounds in 1977, 2002 and 2007. The Division II and III championship games are April 7 at Philips Arena. The NCAA field also includes more than two dozen players from Georgia who are on the rosters of 17 tournament-bound teams, according to data on Rivals.com. Three Peach Staters are on the Middle Tennessee State roster. Here's a look at the 26 Georgia players playing in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Subscribe to the Athens Patch …
Sunday, February 24, 2013
The IOC's decision to remove one of its oldest sports sent shock waves throughout the wrestling world. Patch wants to know what you think.
The recent decision by the International Olympic Committee to drop wrestling from the 2020 Summer Games stunned and disappointed wrestling coaches across metro Atlanta. The IOC’s decision really hit home with Patrick Ryan during the recent Georgia wrestling championship tournament in Macon. Ryan, Lithonia High School’s wrestling coach, said his all-time best wrestler told him, “I don’t even want to wrestle anymore.” “Here is my all-time greatest wrestler, telling me he wants to quit,” Ryan said, “and I had to convince him to keep going.” In a secret vote, the International Olympic Committee’s executive board decided to eliminate wrestling from the Olympics. The committee agreed to pare down the 26 sports it features to 25 so that a new …
Hildred Williams
11:59 am on Sunday, May 5, 2013
the NCAA's ban on URL's and hashtags is weird and not very forward thinking. Get over yourselves , some things need to change with the times this is definitely one of them.#NCAA #oldschool #newschool #neednewblood @twitter more ›